Health plans have been quick to embrace virtual care despite issues surrounding outcomes and access. A new survey from AHIP found most payers are facing unexpected challenges with patient adoption of virtual care.

The Medicare at 50 Act, introduced earlier this week, is already getting pushback from healthcare organizations that were hoping to either expand Medicare options to all or, on the flip side, keep the coverage primarily for those 65 and over.

CMS aims to recover $4.5 billion in the next 10 years as regards this change, including $1 billion in 2020. That first-year figure includes $650 million in audit recoveries from 30 plans for payments made in years 2011-2013.

At AHIP’s National Conference on Medicaid on Wednesday, Toby Douglas, senior vice president of national Medicaid programs at Kaiser Permanente, discussed some of the work the healthcare giant is doing to care for homeless population

By expanding Medicaid, we can help rural Virginia. We can help your hospitals. We can help people be more productive if they’re healthy. We can help them get jobs he recalled telling Republican state legislators from rural districts. In time, they agreed it was the right move

Republican lawmakers and the Trump administration have made a series of moves intended to weaken the health law, such as halting subsidies that covered some consumers’ out-of-pocket costs and eliminating the penalty.